| خلاصه مقاله | Goals: Breast cancer is the most common cancer, and the second most
common cause of death in women. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes
(TILs) play an essential role in mediating response to chemotherapy
and improving clinical outcomes which opens the possibility for new
treatment options through modulation of immune response. TILs
have been shown to provide prognostic and potentially predictive
value, particularly in triple-negative and HER2 type breast cancer but
the role and the effect of TILs on prognosis in luminal breast cancer is
less clear. We evaluated relationship between TILs and clinical
outcome were defined as disease-free survival (DFS) and overall
survival (OS) in all sub types of breast cancer.
Methods: 228 patients with non-metastatic breast between (2009–
2019) were enrolled. Paraffin blocks (biopsies) that confirmed by
pathologist were included and assessed by H&E staining for number
of TILs. The association between clinicopathologic parameters,
prognosis(DFS, OS) and TILs were evaluated.
Results: The mean ± SD age of the patients was 48.42 ± 9.62
years (range: 27–77 years). About 90.7% of cases were
younger than 65 years old. 32 (14%) of the patients were in stage I, 29
(56.6%) were in stage II and 67 (29.4%) were in stage III of breast
cancer.134 patients (58.8%) had TILs (TILs positive), And 94 patients
(41.2%) did not have lymphocyte infiltration in breast cancer tissue
(TILs negative).100 patients (43.9%) had TILs ≤ 30%, 12 patients (5.3%)
had TILs, 31–49% and 22 patients (9.6%) had TILs ≥50%. The mean of
TILs were 23.29% ± 15.77%. Relationship between TILs and age, stage
were not statistically significant, but Relationship between TILs and
subtype of breast cancer was statistically significant (P-value <0.001).
Disease Free Survival two, five and ten years were 99.6%, 94%, and
80.1%, respectively. Overall Survival two, five and ten years were
99.6%, 97.6%, and 82.9%, respectively. The Univariate Cox regression
and adjusting for confounding variables with multivariate Cox
regression analysis showed that DFS and OS were not association
with TILs.
Prognostic
Factor
Patient
(n)
228
<=30% TILs +
31–49%
>=50% TILs– n (%) P-Value
<=35years 11 62.5% 12.5% 25% 3 (27%)
Age 36–65years 207 74.2% 9.2% 16.7% 87 (42%) 0.613
>65years 10 100% 0% 0% 4 (40%)
Stage I 32 83.3% 8.3% 8.3% 4 (40%)
II 129 79.4% 4.4% 16.2% 61 (47%) 0.272
III 67 66.7% 14.8% 18.5% 13 (19.4%)
Luminal A 174 84.4% 4.2% 11.5% 78 (44.8%) 0.602
Luminal B 26 40.9% 27.3% 31.8% 4 (15.4%) <0.001
HER2+ 11 28.6% 29.6% 42.9% 4 (36.4%) <0.001
TNBC 17 89.9% 0.0% 11.1% 8 (47%) 0.855
Correlation of clinical and pathological findings with TILs
Conclusion(s): The results from this study suggest that TILs is
associated with subtype of breast cancer. From the survival analysis,
there were no statistical difference in overall survival and disease free
survival with TILs. Further studies with larger sample sizes are
recommended for further investigation. |